X:1
T:The Strolling Mason
Q:"Moderate"
M:C
L:1/8
B:O'Neill's Music of Ireland. 1850 Melodies, 1903, p. 69, no. 395
Z:François-Emmanuel de Wasseige
N:The last note of each part has been modified (G6 instead of G4).
K:G
EG|ABAG E2D2|EGAB c2BA|GABG A2GE|(D4D2) EG|
ABAG E2D2|EGAB c2Bc|dedA B2A2|G6||
BA|GABc d2Bd|e2ce d2BA|GABc A2GE|(D4D2) EG|
ABAG E2D2|EGAB c2Bc|dedA B2A2|G6|]
STROLLING MASON, THE (“An Saorcloic Sduipeal” or “An Raibuire Raoin”). Irish, Air (4/4 time). D Mixolydian/G Major (O’Neill): F Dorian/E Flat Major (Stanford/Petrie). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.
Additional notes Source for notated version : - Mary Madden and Frank Keane [Petrie]; Chicago Police Sergeant James O’Neill, a fiddler originally from County Down and Francis O’Neill’s collaborator [O’Neill].
Printed sources : - O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 395, p. 69. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection of Petrie's Irish Music), 1905; Nos. 464, 1070 & 1071, pp. 117 & 271.